Multimedia Security and Privacy
Multimedia security is a master course that will focus primarily on stochastic modelling techniques for watermarking digital content.
In short
All relevant course information, slides and materials are on Moodle.
Timetable
Lectures: Thursday 14:00-16:00, A316-318
Labwork (TP) : Thursday 08:00-10:00, A404-407
People
Instructor:
Teaching Assistent
Course outline
- Classical approaches to security
- Modern multimedia security
- Elements of probability, statistics and classification
- Practical digital watermarking methods
- Content fingerprinting
- Biometrics
- Main techniques for privacy protection
Supplementary Materials
Books
- A. K. Jain , Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
- A. Bovik, Handbook of Image & Video Processing, Academic Press, 2000.
- H. Stark and J. W. Woods, Probability, Random Processes, and Estimation Theory for Engineers, Prentice-Hall, 1994.
- H. V. Poor, An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation, 2nd Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994.
- M. Vetterli and J. Kovacevic, Wavelets and Subband Coding, Prentice-Hall, 1995.
- I.J. Cox, M.L. Miller, and J.A. Bloom, Digital Watermarking, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2001.
- M. Barni, F. Bartolini, Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications, Marcel Dekker, 2004.
- D. MacKay, Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, Cambrdige University Press, 2003. It is available online for free.
Prerequisites
You must refresh your knowledge on probability and statistics prior to this class. Specifically on two-class bayes classification and the Neyman–Pearson lemma.
The labwork will be done in Matlab, or Python.
